Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the writer and broadcaster lucy beresford and the property and personal finance commentator anne ashworth. Hello to you both. Tomorrow s front pages, starting with. As health secretary sajid javid tests positive for covid, the observer highlights the plea from top scientists not to let the virus rip as england prepares to lift all remaining lockdown restrictions on monday. With that in mind, the mirror leads on calls by a scientists for monday to be dubbed free dumb day. The health secretary s positive covid test is also the lead for the express, with the paper carrying warnings from business leaders that they expect staffing chaos to continue as workers continue to be pinged by the nhs test and trace app. The mail speculates on the number of senior cabinet members who might have to self isolate as a result of sajid javid s positive test. It s emerged that the health secretary spent time w
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welcome back to the weekend everyone. the georgia racketeering case against donald trump and his codefendants remained in the boat this morning after two drama filled days of testimony in a hearing to determine whether fulton county district attorney, fani willis, can remain the prosecutor on the case. it could be another week, or even more, until judge scott mcafee determines if willis should be thrown off the case over past relationship with special prosecutor, nathan wade. the defense into arguing the dating lives present a conflict of interest because of financial gain. joining us now former federal prosecutor, mr. greenberg, an msnbc greenberg analyst anthony coley. also a former senior adviser to attorney general merrick garland. thank you all for being here. there were a lot of really powerful moments throughout this testimony. i want to make sure that we hear willis in her own words about who is actually on trial here. take a listen. you ve been intrusive into p
january 6th, i issued a tweet demanding that people leave the capitol and end the violence. i said that those that failed to do that should be prosecuted to the fullest exat the present time of the law and i continue to believe that today. we cannot ever allow what happened on january 6th to happen again in the heart of our democracy. and i ll stand by the decisions and the due process of court in our laws. and i have no interest or no intention of pardoning those that assaulted police officers or vandalized our capital. they need to be answerable to the law. former vice president mike pence with one of the ways he is differentiating himself from his former boss. we ll have more from his campaign launch just ahead. it comes as the department of justice confirms what we all suspected. trump is the target of the classified documents investigation. we ll get expert analysis on what it means for an indictment moving forward. plus, one of the pga s top players blasts the organiz
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper